Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 31 May 2025

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05/31/2025

Average data

Episodes: 166

Frequency: every 244 days

Duration: 00:45:22

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Radio 4 (7 shows)

2. CBC (4 shows)

3. Tortoise Media (3 shows)

4. QUB radio (2 shows)

5. audiochuck (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (21 shows)

2. Megaphone (16 shows)

3. BBC (13 shows)

4. Omny Studio (10 shows)

5. Simplecast (6 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
2	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	314	Megaphone	42
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	945	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
5	Criminal	Vox Media Podcast Network	True Crime	414	Megaphone	63
6	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
7	The Takeover	Canada's National Observer	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
8	Away Days Podcast: Reporting from the Underbelly	H11, Cool Zone Media & iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	13	Omny Studio	48
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	Cult of Body & Soul	Jess Rothschild & Broadway Podcast Network	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	69
11	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
12	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
14	The Redefector	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	69
15	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
16	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
17	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	58	PRX	74
18	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
19	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	444	Megaphone	32
20	Next Question with Katie Couric	Katie Couric Media	Society & Culture	443	Acast	53
21	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
22	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
23	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
24	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
25	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
26	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
27	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
29	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
30	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
31	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	30	Acast	83
32	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
33	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
34	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
35	How I Survived	That's Life!	Society & Culture	48	Omny Studio	53
36	The Jack Hopkins Show Podcast	Jack Hopkins	Society & Culture	60	Buzzsprout	37
37	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
38	Hysterical	Audible Original \| Pineapple Street Studios	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
39	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
40	Micro Dix Quatre	www.patreon.com/microdixquatre	Society & Culture	45	Podbean	53
41	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
42	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
43	Split Screen: Bachelor of Buckingham Palace	CBC	TV & Film	30	Triton Digital	63
44	Ce n'est qu'une théorie	QUB radio	Society & Culture	18	Omny Studio	69
45	Mike Drop	Mike Ritland	Society & Culture	457	RedCircle	59
46	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
47	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
48	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	130	BBC	38
49	The Shrink Next Door	Audible Original \| Bloomberg	Society & Culture	5	ART19	63
50	L'heure de grande écoute	Transistor Média	Society & Culture	25	Transistor	90
51	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
52	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
53	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
54	To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll	Rubrik \| Nicole Perlroth \| Pod People	Society & Culture	19	Megaphone	63
55	The Illuminator: Art, Conspiracy and Madness	Brazen	Society & Culture	9	Megaphone	79
56	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
57	COMMONS	CANADALAND	Society & Culture	277	Acast	69
58	28ish Days Later	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	29	BBC	43
59	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
60	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
61	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
62	CNN Presents	CNN Audio	Society & Culture	20	Megaphone	69
63	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
64	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
65	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1207	Acast	59
66	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
67	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
68	Great Lives	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	416	BBC	28
69	Documentary on One Podcast	RTÉ Documentary on One	Society & Culture	1957	Omny Studio	42
70	La liste de Paul Arcand	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	10	Omny Studio	63
71	Art Bell Back in Time	Art Bell Back in Time	Society & Culture	3	Spotify for Podcasters	53
72	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
73	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
74	How To Destroy Everything	HTDE \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	43	Megaphone	48
75	Relatos Forenses Podcast	pepe&chema	Society & Culture	278	Megaphone	32
76	Child	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	37	BBC	63
77	13 Minutes: Trouble with Hubble	BBC World Service	History	59	BBC	58
78	ColdFusion	Dagogo Altraide	Society & Culture	43	RSS.com	68
79	پادکست داستانی ترپند /TarPand	Tarpand	Society & Culture	57	Acast	79
80	The Gas Man	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	7	Acast	69
81	Call Bethel	The Telegraph	Society & Culture	6	Acast	53
82	BioHacked: Family Secrets	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	48
83	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
84	Welcome to Paradise	CBC	Society & Culture	10	Triton Digital	59
85	A Very British Cult	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	9	BBC	49
86	Métis Speaker Series	Metis Nation British Columbia	Society & Culture	63	RedCircle	63
87	Everyone Has An Ex	Mamamia Podcasts	Society & Culture	100	Omny Studio	89
88	Sabotage	Good Luck Media	Society & Culture	11	Megaphone	79
89	香港電台：古今風雲人物	RTHK.HK	Society & Culture	6	Unknown	38
90	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
91	My Year in Mensa	iHeartPodcasts and Jamie Loftus	Society & Culture	5	Omny Studio	53
92	Sous les barrages : Tshishe Manikuan	Productions Innu Assi	Society & Culture	7	Acast	53
93	7 jours sur Terre	7 jours sur Terre, Benjamin Tremblay	Society & Culture	127	Simplecast	53
94	The Coming Storm	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	24	BBC	39
95	Sleep and ASMR by The French Whisperer	The French Whisperer	Religion & Spirituality	130	Spotify for Podcasters	38
96	Unpacking the Impacts	Consent is Golden	Society & Culture	1	Spotify for Podcasters	53
97	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
98	This Haunted Life	Adam Berry	Society & Culture	14	Transistor	79
99	Crackdown	Crackdown Productions	Society & Culture	68	Blubrry	49
100	Garde-Manger	QUB radio	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	63

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